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Large-scale open source public cloud powered by OpenStack
Rackspace announced the availability of cloud databases and cloud servers powered by OpenStack, along with a new control panel. The introduction of these open cloud products …
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks
For years, the popularity of relational databases created by Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM, and of the open source MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite was undisputed. But, in time, …
KeePass Password Safe 1.23 released
KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and mobile devices. You can store your passwords in a …
Open source IDS Suricata 1.3 released
Suricata is a network intrusion detection and prevention engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation and its supporting vendors. Several characteristics of …
Cuckoo Sandbox: Automated malware analysis
Cuckoo Sandbox is an open source automated malware analysis system. It started as a Google Summer of Code 2010 project with The Honeynet Project and evolved into being one of …
Vulnerabilities in open source WAF ModSecurity
During our research of web application firewall evasion issues, we uncovered a flaw in ModSecurity that may lead to complete bypass of the installed rules, in the cases when …
Security analysis tool Trisul 2.4 released
Trisul is a new kind of network monitor that supplements fine grained traffic metering with flows, packets, and alerts. You can carry out any kind of network and security …
High Performance MySQL
High Performance MySQL teaches you advanced techniques in depth so you can bring out MySQL’s full power. Learn how to design schemas, indexes, queries, and advanced …
Nmap 6 released
Nmap is a free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the …
Android remote systems administration tools
Cura is a mobile phone application bundle of remote systems administration tools. It provides a personalized terminal emulator, a syslog module that allows for reading logs …
Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools
Proprietary digital forensics tools have long been popular with the majority of forensic practitioners, but there are also open source ones that can come very handy. The book …
Anonymous to set up secure Pastebin alternative
Following Pastebin.com owner’s announcement of his intention of speeding up takedown of sensitive information and his willingness to share the posters’ IP …